Newry Armagh Sinn Féin Sinn Féin -- Building an Ireland of Equals

Mickey Brady MLA

For decades now, Mickey Brady has quietly, sympathetically and professionally represented people from all backgrounds who have sought independent advice on social welfare issues. In that time he saw genuine need and endeavoured to alleviate it. As a man of honesty, integrity and principle he is an invaluable asset to Sinn Fein's Assembly team.

No panel, committee or tribunal was complete without Mickey Brady, the experienced counsellor and people's advocate - the man whose name has become synonymous with Welfare Rights.

Ballybot born, Mickey Brady is the quintessential Newry man. Espousing the Republican principles of Tone and Connolly, in those patriots' endeavours to unite all the people of Ireland and to advance the interests of the working class, Mickey Brady's decision to enter the public political arena, as a Sinn Fein representative, was a natural and welcome one.

Not just Newry, but the Assembly itself needs people of the calibre of Mickey Brady. He is a Republican who stands out as a man of substance, a worker with a performance record second to none for whom sectarianism is anathema.

His vast experience in representing individuals, families and community-based organisations has left him deeply aware of the need for compassion and fair play in society. He is gently persuasive, informed and determined; a good fighter in the corner of the socially excluded and powerless, and a formidable opponent of injustice.

As a Sinn Fein MLA Mickey Brady's emergence onto the public political stage is symbolic of the changes which are affecting the political landscape.